Albert b



(N0 odel.

A.B".AUER. J TYPE FORM FURNITURE, 8w.

Patented May 22,1883.

' 'Nrreo STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT B. AUER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO STERLINGP. ROUNDS, OF SAME PLACE.

SPECIFICATION forming 5.... of Letters-Patent No. 278,211, dated May 22,1883. application filed April 26, 1 883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT B. AUER, of Chicago,,in the county of Cookand State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement inType-Form Furniture, 85c; and I do hereby declare that the following isa full, clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention relates to what is known as furniture, used in printing toseparate lines the type, in addition to the pressure received throughthe process known as locking-up, for retaining the said furniture, 850.,in its proper place,-and to prevent it from rising to a level or abovethe type-face from any cause and blacking the paper from the inkreceived upon it when in such raised position. The effect desired,however that is, to have furniture, & c., retain its proper position-is1ot invariably produced by this ordinary furniture, and it is very oftenthe case, whether from the fact of the form being improperly locked up,or the pages not justified uniformly,

or from other causes, that the furniture, reglet, or slug, one or all,work up above the surface of the type-face and black the sheet atvarious points. This not only "spoils every sheet that is passed throughthe press while the piece of furniture or other article is in thisposition, but causes loss of time and great annoyance, as thepress mustbe stopped and the piece of furniture or other article forced back toits proper place.

It is the object of the present invention to provide means whereby thisdifficulty may be entirely obviated, not only uponforms of type, butupon forms of stereotype and electrotype plates, whether blocked orsolid, or the numerous patented blocks, as the difficulty referred to isas great in this as in any class of printing. V

article will be prevented, and it will be made to remain in the positionin which it is locked in the chase.

To more conveniently and intelligently represent my improvement I haveshown itin the accompanying drawings as applied to a slug, the figureshein g slightly enlarged.

Figure 1 is a' perspective view of a slug provided with longitudinalgrooves. Fig.2 is an end elevation of the same. Fig. 3 shows slugs insection in position withinthe chaseand ad joining a row of type, thelead on the left of the figure being represented as grooved in a mannersimilar to the slug. Figs. 4 and 5 show modifications of the groovesupon the face of the slug. Fig. 6 shows the invention applied to a pieceof furniture.

In the drawings the slug is represented at A and the serrations orgrooves are indicated at a. They may be made lengthwise of the slug, asshown in Fig. 1, or diagonally across the face of the metal, as in Fig.5, and may be formed with the articles in the process of manufacture, orformed upon such articles after they are made in any suitable andobvious manner. 7

Instead of the grooves, the face of the article may he roughened in anysuitable manner, as I wish it distinctly understood that I do not limitmyself in this particular, with this exception-memely, that it isessential to the proper wo'rkin g of the invention that the chan nelsbetween the groove or serrations do not run in a vertical direction,'-asif this were the case, the ridges would not retain the article uponwhich such grooves were formed in its proper position, but would be justas likely to work up above the type-face as theold form. To this extentonly am I limited, and the grooving, marking, or roughening of a pieceof fun niture, slug, reglet, lead, or similar article in any other shapeor manner will still be within the spirit of my invention.

It will be observed from the drawings, Fig.

3, that when the slug is placed in position against a page or line oftype and the form locked up in the ordinary manner the ridges or pointsof the roughened sides of the slug will stick closely to the type orintervening body, (which may be likewise grooved,) and vhile notentering the body of the type (or intervening body) sufficiently tobruise them, yet it is enough to prevent any vertical movementindependent of the type. Another advantage arises from the longitudinalor diagonal groo"esthat is, that the surface of the ridges are of equalwidth, and there is no liability of spreading the lines of type whenplaced directly against them, as would be the case were the serrationsor grooves made vertically across the sides of the furniture, by reasonof the fact that the ridges would then be parallel with the openingsbetween the rows of types, and there would be danger of these ridgesforcing the lines apart at these points were undue pressure applied.

This invention, as before stated, may be ap plied to all articles of theclass specified, or where it would be desirable, and in practice ,rnetaland wooden articles containing my invention may be used together withthe same result as if both articles were of metal.

It may be found desirable to apply my inprevent rising, substantially asand for the purpose set forth.

2. The method ot retaining cuts, furniture, or similar articles inproper position in a form by roughening the bearing-edges of sucharticles to prevent rising, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

ALBERT B. AUER.

Witnesses:

A. J. DONALDSON, M. A. W. LOUIS.

